Hello Hawaii brides~I've been lurking around for the past month or so and finally decided I should just drop in.FI and I are planning a semi-destination wedding to Oahu next July. I say semi in that his entire family live in Oahu already. My family and ourselves are over in northern CA. We booked our reception site at the Japanese Cultural Center, but are having major, major issues finding a ceremony location. FI, being a local, has ruled out any chance of having a beach wedding (which he considers too 'touristy' *rolls eyes*), and we'd need room for maybe about 100-150 people. Our mainland non-denom Christian pastor plans on coming along with us, but as I've been finding out, you can't just rent a local hawaii church without using their own pastors, or at least a pastor in the same denomination. And unfortunately FI's family can't help us find a church since they are all Buddhist.So we've been looking at gardens, which seem to be a happy medium. Anyone head of or had any luck with Haiku gardens? I'm leaning in that direction at the moment, but I'm a little hesistant at shelling out 900 dollars for 2 hours worth of time (including set up and clean up). We have a fairly large budget to work with, but I'm still trying to stay in the cheap as much as possible. Is 2 hours enough for a ceremony with pictures after? the JCC isn't very scenic, so all our natural/outdoors shots would have to be taken either before the wedding or at the ceremony site.Sorry for such a lengthy post. I'm nearing the 330 day mark for booking flights and I don't want to send out my save the dates without a set ceremony site. Thanks for reading! ^_^"